🇲🇲 Myanmar map update: the situation in Myanmar as of 01/10/2024.

🔗 Thomas van Linge

🇺🇸 NYPD increases security at synagogues after Iranian missile attack on Israel

The enhanced deployment of police personnel, which has been in place for weeks, is set to extend through the High Holy Days, which will begin with Rosh Hashanah Wednesday and include Oct. 7, the one-year anniversary of Hamas’ attack on Israel, which sparked the current Israel-Hamas conflict.

🔗 https://www.yahoo.com/news/nypd-increases-security-synagogues-iranian-190400506.html

🇷🇼 Outbreak of the Marburg virus in Rwanda

For the first time in Rwanda’s history, its health ministry is dealing with an outbreak of Marburg virus disease, a rare but deadly hemorrhagic disease similar to Ebola – but unlike Ebola, there is no treatment or vaccines for Marburg, and it has a fatality rate of 88%.

So far, 26 people have gotten sick, 18 are in treatment and eight people have died in the outbreak, according to the health ministry.

In addition to sending medical supplies, the World Health Organization said over the weekend that it is deploying a team of seven global experts in hemorrhagic disease to Rwanda who can provide guidance for public health experts on the ground. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday that it is also sending experts to Rwanda to help support testing and contact-tracing efforts.

There are no cases of Marburg in the United States, and the risk to Americans with this outbreak is low.

Unlike in some other sub-Saharan African countries that have dealt with Marburg virus disease, Rwanda has a strong public health system, according to WHO.

“With the country’s already robust public health emergency response system, WHO is collaborating closely with the national authorities to provide the needed support to further enhance the ongoing efforts,” said Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, WHO regional director for Africa.

Dr. Brian Chirombo, the WHO representative to Rwanda, said Sunday that he believes the country has “the capacity and the ability to stop this outbreak very quickly.”

The virus has spread to seven of the country’s 30 districts. More than 100 people who have had contact with infected people are either being monitored or in isolation, the ministry said. Many of those who have gotten sick are health care workers.

Marburg is an orthomarburgvirus, a virus that naturally occurs in fruit bats. It’s in the same family as the Ebola virus.

Marburg can spread from human to human when someone comes into contact with bodily fluids from a person who’s been infected. People can also get sick after handling a patient’s clothing or bedding.

🔗 https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/30/health/marburg-virus-rwanda-outbreak-disease/index.html

🇩🇪 The Marburg virus outbreak in Rwanda has potentially reached Germany

German police cordoned off the Hamburg train station in search of two people who developed flu-like symptoms after traveling to Rwanda.

They were found and taken to a local clinic to be examined.

🔗 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr30351gzro

🛰 Night time satellite photos in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene

📎 https://x.com/tommyrulznyc/status/1841595105842475401

If you are wondering why citizens are being turned away that are coming to help NC and TN - you'll want to hear my experience as someone who has been doing this as a private citizen for almost a decade.

I was able to get into, and out of Asheville. We brought food, water, fuel and other supplies as well as helped people affected by the floods, but there are reasons why they are not allowing outside help.

I cannot confirm the reasons why in NC, but i can tell you the reasons in other storms i have worked - i'll explain below.

Let me share with you the first disaster area that i finally realized that this was all about money.

Read the full post below:

📎 https://fxtwitter.com/ryantyre/status/1841583311782568064

🇲🇽 Six migrants die after Mexican soldiers fire on pick-up truck

Mexican soldiers open fire on migrants in pickup truck trying to evade patrol, killing 6 people and injuring 10

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexican-soldiers-open-fire-migrants-killing-six-2024-10-02/

https://archive.ph/J6STY

🇺🇸🇮🇱Biden confronts the limits of his influence over Israel

President Joe Biden and his senior aides have urged Israel to avoid direct attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities when it strikes back against Tehran — the latest sign of the limits of the U.S.’ power to prevent all but the most extreme actions by Israel.

The directive illustrates the limits of Biden’s waning influence over events in the Middle East and an acknowledgment that he may be unable to stop what his administration has spent a year trying to prevent: regional war.

For months, Netanyahu and his government have consistently ignored American counsel as to how to prosecute the war in Gaza against Hamas after the Oct. 7 terror attacks. Biden and his aides were repeatedly frustrated by Israel’s widening war aims within Gaza — with a devastating impact on Palestinian civilians — even at the cost of a deal to free the remaining hostages.

📎 POLITICO

📎https://archive.ph/6FnVL

#BREAKING
🇺🇸🇮🇱❌🇮🇷 — US President Joe Biden confirms to Bloomberg that US Government and Israeli Government are discussing a joint strike against Iranian oil facilities in Southern Iran!

🇺🇸🛡🇮🇱 U.S. warships launched a dozen SM-3 interceptors to shoot down Iranian ballistic missiles this week—that’s a year’s worth of production.

Biden’s FY25 defense budget calls for $400 million cut to missile defense.

🔗 Lucas Tomlinson

🇩🇰🇸🇪🇩🇪🇧🇪🇳🇱🇬🇧 "Studies in Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands now all find the same thing --low skill, low wage immigration from outside Europe, exactly the kind the UK is encouraging, is a net fiscal cost, not benefit, to Western economies"

🔗 https://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/the-economic-case-for-mass-immigration

🇬🇧🤝🇲🇺 UK renounces sovereignty over the Chagos islands. Hands them over to Mauritius

The UK has announced it is giving up sovereignty of a remote but strategically important cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean after more than half a century.

This includes the tropical atoll of Diego Garcia, used by the US government as a military base for its navy ships and long-range bomber aircraft.

The US-UK base will remain on Diego Garcia – a key factor enabling the deal to go forward at a time of growing geopolitical rivalries in the region between Western countries, India, and China.

"This is a seminal moment in our relationship and a demonstration of our enduring commitment to the peaceful resolution of disputes and the rule of law," the statement from UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth read.

🔗 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c98ynejg4l5o?at_format=link&at_bbc_team=editorial

FEMA training director says they are concerned about faith-based shelters misgendering "migrant transwomen"

Why should we give this agency any more funding?

📎 ExposeThem